Bangladesh’s Yunus to Visit China This Month

File image of Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus Munir. UZ ZAMAN / AFP

Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus will travel to Beijing on a diplomatic goodwill visit this month as frosty relations with neighboring India spur his caretaker administration to court new friends.

The Nobel Peace laureate took charge of Bangladesh last August after the ouster of autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India after a student-led uprising.

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